A Friend at Midnight

Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls home from the Baltimore-Washington Airport where his father has abandoned him.

Lily is home babysitting her baby stepbrother when she answers the phone. She has no idea the extent to which her faith in God will be tested. There is no choice for Lily. She will rescue Michael, but will she be able to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels?

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Lily never guessed that hate could be so fierce. She's always thought of hate as a verb for clothing (I hate pink) or weather ( I hate when it's hot), but now she uses hate and feels hate in a new way. Lily hates her father. It isn't because of her parent's divorce. Lily has settled pretty comfortably into her new life. When her mother remarried and had a baby, she could cope with it. But it hasn't been the same for Lily's younger brother, Michael. Michael decides he wants to live with their father, and as much as they want to stop him, they have to let him go. When Michael ends up suddenly coming home again, only Lily knows why.